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Alien Contact: Just a Hypothesis

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Just an idea I had when reading about these people. I don't look at this as a scientific thought, but with so many who believe in UFOs and so on:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_people

Consider those people. What we have done is refused to contact them because of we pose a threat to them. And their beliefs are dangerous to us as well (well to those who make contact). So if one were observing a planet sized version of this...would you contact it? Or would you...if that were your desire...do some aerial passes and maybe check a slow contact/accidental contacts over the years? Get them used to the idea?

Interesting concept huh?
 
stonewall50 said:
Just an idea I had when reading about these people. I don't look at this as a scientific thought, but with so many who believe in UFOs and so on:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_people

Consider those people. What we have done is refused to contact them because of we pose a threat to them. And their beliefs are dangerous to us as well (well to those who make contact). So if one were observing a planet sized version of this...would you contact it? Or would you...if that were your desire...do some aerial passes and maybe check a slow contact/accidental contacts over the years? Get them used to the idea?

Interesting concept huh?
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I guess you didn't read the article you cited.

They are noted for their xenophobia, manifested in their fierce, murderous resistances to any attempts at contact by outsiders.
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We don't "refuse to contact them because we pose a threat to them." We avoid contact because they will try to kill anyone who comes onto their island. We would literally have to kill them all in order to "visit" successfully.

Comparing a tribe of xenophobes to the rest of the people on Earth as viewed by an alien observer is stretching the point.

Now if you are looking at the aliens in your thesis as the "benevolent" brand (one of three proposed types including also hostile and indifferent) then it is likely that they would avoid contact because they might feel we were not yet advanced enough to deal successfully with such contact. Think Amerindians after European contact.
 
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stonewall50 said:
Just an idea I had when reading about these people. I don't look at this as a scientific thought, but with so many who believe in UFOs and so on:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_people

Consider those people. What we have done is refused to contact them because of we pose a threat to them. And their beliefs are dangerous to us as well (well to those who make contact). So if one were observing a planet sized version of this...would you contact it? Or would you...if that were your desire...do some aerial passes and maybe check a slow contact/accidental contacts over the years? Get them used to the idea?

Interesting concept huh?
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It's certainly possible that an advanced alien civilization may already be aware of us, and simply hasn't chosen to make contact yet.

After all, if they're advanced enough, they might not actually need anything our civilization either produces or possesses. That would remove any potential profit motive or necessity which might lie behind making contact. Furthermore, if they fear that contact and the possible uplift that might go along with it would cause more harm than benefit, they might very well feel that keeping their presence unknown would be for our own good.

There wouldn't be any way to know for sure in any eventuality, however.
 
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Captain Adverse said:
I guess you didn't read the article you cited.



We don't "refuse to contact them because we pose a threat to them." We avoid contact because they will try to kill anyone who comes onto their island. We would literally have to kill them all in order to "visit" successfully.

Comparing a tribe of xenophobes to the rest of the people on Earth as viewed by an alien observer is stretching the point.

Now if you are looking at the aliens in your thesis as the "benevolent" brand (one of three proposed types including also hostile and indifferent) then it is likely that they would avoid contact because they might feel we were not yet advanced enough to deal successfully with such contact. Think Amerindians after European contact.
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Well with those people they did have a successful contact in the 90s that was peaceful. I glanced at the article, but was mainly listening to a radio show about them. Just wanted a point of reference.

They have done studies and if we did contact them they could lose 2/3 of the population due to disease and so on.
 
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